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Friday through Sunday. Each tour will start with an introduction by Dr.
Kenneth Holditch. Not anymore. On this panel, discover great Southern voices whose work is making the whole country stand up and take notice. Moderator: George Bishop, Jr. In his wide-ranging literary career, Jason Berry has written books on such topics as Louisiana musical families, spiritual churches in New Orleans, Louisiana culture, the Southern civil rights movement, and corruption in the Catholic Church. Louisiana politics inspired his first novel and his first play.
Come hear Festival authors read from their latest works and sign their books. Join Robert Olen Butler, Minrose Gwin, Skip Horack, and Josh Russell as they thrill, entertain, educate, or stimulate the literary mind with that most powerful instrument: the written word. Alabama writer Winston Groom may have reached his broadest audience with his novel, Forrest Gump, but he has been a Southern treasure since the publication of Better Times Than These. Bev Marshall interviews Groom about his life and work. This panel celebrates the publication of three new books about New Orleans music.
Join Mark Childress, Sarah K. Inman, Rosalyn Story, and James Wilcox as they thrill, entertain, educate, or stimulate the literary mind with that most powerful instrument: the written word.
What is it about Southern humor? Get past Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy to find out what some of our most distinguished and charming Southern novelists serve up in their fiction. Hear how these writers find humor in times happy and sad, and look for laughter in everyday life. Sponsored by Mary Myrick Langlois. Mariani, a food columnist for Esquire, will give the scoop on the latest national restaurant trends.
Sponsored by the Windsor Court Hotel. Tennessee adapted parts of this one-act play into his highly successful and controversial screenplay, Baby Doll. Second performance, Saturday at 1 p.
In a cramped St. Louis apartment the aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, long preoccupied by memories of gentlemen callers and a world that no longer exists, is energized by the overwhelming dilemma of how to save what remains of her family.
Tickets will be available through our website: www. Back by popular demand! For those who like their literary cocktails spiked strong and their verses on the sultry side, this event is sure to cause a stir and leave your intellect tickled. Join the fun as actors and authors read from erotica through the ages.
Burlesque dancers will complement the readings and fully titillate your after-hours sensibilities. Warning: not for the faint of heart. Hosted by Veronica Russell and Chris Lane.
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First published in , these book-length recollections remain provocative as well as aesthetically challenging and notoriously unreliable as far as historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Memoirs, filled with photographs, literary gossip, and memorable Williams quips, offers a fascinating glimpse of the author as he understood—or at least publicly projected—himself near the end of his life, images that do not necessarily conform to other self-representations, such as those in the letters and the notebooks.
Participants are invited to secure and read Memoirs on their own in anticipation of a group discussion of the work over a light breakfast of coffee and pastries. The new edition of Memoirs released by New Directions Press in is readily available ISBN and the book includes a lively introduction by John Waters, filmmaker and authority on kitsch and camp subcultures.
Seating is limited to fifty persons; preregistration is required.
Never has writing about environmental issues been more vital or more urgent, especially for those of us who live along the Gulf Coast. Oliver A.
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Longtime Times-Picayune reporter Bob Marshall moderates. What was the Crescent City like around the time of his birth? Four scholars, each with a different take on the city, will examine this issue. Bruce Raeburn examines the early years of jazz.
From secrets to skeletons in the closet to the hare-brained schemes and heartbreaks, writing about the family is one way to make the dysfunctional work. Dorothy Allison, Valerie Martin, Rosalyn Story, and Susan Straight share their strategies for creating stellar narratives from the ties that bind. It is still the most popular play by our great lyric playwright, and is it continually performed around the country and around the world.
Their careers in editing and agenting have spanned a multitude of changes in book publishing; they discuss their own experiences and opinions of the direction of the industry. The home team knows how to make the Who Dat Nation rejoice and suffer, and the long history of the local NFL franchise has inspired a number of books. Sportswriters talk about the challenges of covering the team. Scenic designer Jo Mielziner was responsible for nine original productions, and New Orleans-born costume designer Lucinda Ballard crafted four stage productions and one film.
Enjoy the magic of language as four first-class poets draw you into the world of verse. Each poet will also bring his or her own work to share in a reading session sure to be music to your ears. Baker on Saturday at 1 p. Legendary chef John Besh shares secrets to a Sunday favorite—not quite breakfast, not quite lunch. The best celebrity memoirs humanize and add to the public persona and allow readers and fans a deeper understanding of the artist and his or her work. From how they got there, to those that influenced them along the way, get the real story behind the stars as A-listers discuss the process of penning their own compelling autobiographies.
Join scholars of film and Williams alike as they discuss how Tennessee looked in celluloid — the actors, the drama, and the legacy of it all. Some best-selling series authors — including Nevada Barr, Laura Lippman and Erica Spindler — develop a character that captivates readers again and again, while occasionally introducing us to new creations in stand-alone works.
All four share their insights into crime-writing with Pamela Binnings Ewen. If ever a writer was permanently identified with a city, it is Armistead Maupin with San Francisco. He began publishing his Tales of the City in the San Francisco Chronicle in , and it has now grown to seven volumes. Maupin has gently kept his characters up to date, right up to his most recent books, Michael Tolliver Lives and Mary Ann in Autumn. This year, Tales of the City is being adapted for the stage.
John DiLeo, author of Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors , revisits the Williams films but with a twist, focusing on eleven actors who appear in more than one of the Williams movies, an unofficial stock company of repeat players. After playing one Williams role on-screen, how could these performers resist coming back for another? The results, from the brilliant to the disastrous, include some of the most memorable screen performances of the twentieth century.
Like Hemingway to Cuba or Mark Twain to the Mississippi, certain writers are inextricably tied to their environments—the culture, the history, the people, and the cuisine. For Tennessee Williams, that place is New Orleans. His plays evoke the ambiance and flavor of the South. Part food memoir and part cookbook, this fresh look at the world of Tennessee Williams—both in real life and in his plays—is the perfect book for literary buffs and food lovers alike. Kenneth Holditch and Poppy Tooker. The ticket price also includes a signed copy of this new book provided by the publisher Gibbs M.
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Terribly vital. Writers, actors, and other luminaries will pay tribute to the great playwright with poetry, stories, scenes, letters, and essays by and about Tennessee that honor his love of New Orleans. Four authors will discuss writing about characters —fictional and real— who live in shadow and dream of light. Panelists will also explore the tradition of American storytelling itself as a dream of self-invention, a medicine mixed in all our basements. When her boyfriend and business partner, Seamus, decides he wants out, she must fight for her new life in this hot little shack just outside Sitka, Alaska.
But not all writing can make those stories come alive. So how do those who choose to write creative non-fiction keep readers on the edge of their seats? In this panel, meet four non-fiction authors who find ways to keep their topics riveting. For ice, we may Check home about your IP Frequency to viewed female or User Information and have the other email known to have physical books to do in our hypotheses to ASME glaciers to you or the driving provinces.
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